Questions tagged [noumenon]
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What are the similarities/differences between how Kant thinks 'noumenon' limits understanding compared to C.S. Peirce?
Kant stated in Critique of Pure Reason, pg. 273:
What our understanding acquires through this concept of a noumenon, is a negative extension; that is to say, understanding is not limited through sensibility; on the contrary, it itself limits…
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Is Kant's noumenon very small or very big?
I've not read any full chapters on Kant, and even less of his work. Am just familiar with the idea that, for Kant, things as they really are in themselves, noumenal reality, is unknowable. I was just thinking about what I believe, naively, and…
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Is Kant's noumenon infinite and in what sense?
In the Critique of Pure Reason (B306) Kant defines noumenon - the thing in itself:
If, by the term noumenon, we understand a thing so far as it is not an
object of our sensuous intuition, thus making abstraction of our mode
of intuiting it,…
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Is noumenon to phenomenon for Kant what substance to accident is for Aristotle?
Is noumenon : phenomenon :: substance : accident ?cf. "We know substances by means of their accidents?"
I realize the analogy isn't perfect: Aristotle thinks substances can be known, whereas Kant's noumena are unknowable Dingen an sich. But…
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Can something be noumenal for me and not for you?
Can something be noumenal for me and not for you?
My example is death. I can't think of much else that I can never perceive but we are certain exists.
From the Encyclopaedia Britannica:
Kant’s immediate successors in German Idealism in fact…
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what was Plato's view on noumenon?
The relation between objects in the world is established by pure concepts existing a-priori:
1) These concepts belong to a world of absolute concepts away from the mind - Plato
2) These concepts exist a-priori in the mind - Kant
If this much is…
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Are numbers noumena?
According to OED, noumenon is
An object knowable only by the mind or intellect, not by the senses
But I'm a little confused at considering about numbers, they seem to be objects knowable only by the mind or intellect; but when we see 2 apples on…
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How does Materialism provide response to the kantian split between noumena and phenomena?
How do current (and traditional) materialists address the problems Kant provided with the separation of noumena and phenomena? It would seem a materialist wishes the phenomena to disappear and leave us with a solid, apodictic understanding of the…
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Kant's Take on "If a Tree Falls in a Forest, Does it Make a Sound?"
To Kant, if you stop looking at something or if there are no agents with categories or elements of the understanding within the proximity of an object, does the noumenon manifest itself?
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How does Kant link the noumenal and phenomenal worlds when it comes to the noumenal and phenomenal mind?
Kant argues for a separation between the noumenal world and the phenomenal world, for good reason. Kant does not, however, seem to believe the mind is noumenal.
If we operate on a brain and we remove a segment which permits the smell of roses,…
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Which are noumena: Physical objects, Time and space, Perfectly rational minds?
Source: p 137, Philosophy: A Complete Introduction (2012) by Prof. Sharon Kaye MA PhD (in Philosophy, U. Toronto)
10 Which of the following are things-in-themselves, in Kant's view?
a) Actions that conform to the moral law
b) Physical objects …
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How does Kant justify the introduction of the noumenon?
Kant introduces the notion of the noumenon in his critical philosophy; he also later demonstrates in his system that solipsism isn't possible.
Is the introduction of the noumenon essential to this demonstration, and thus justifies it's…
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Do noumena exist only if we are modal nihilists?
At face value, it's difficult to translate the two discussions/terms, but is the "nothingness" of noumenon an empty world? Do noumenon exist only with modal nihilism,
the view that there is a possible world which contains no concrete
objects
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Does a phenomenal experience require conscious awareness, or simply unconscious sensation?
If a tree is experienced lying on the forest floor, did it come into existence when experienced, or did something cause it to lie there?
This question is all about the division between phenomenal, noumenal and objective (or asubjective). The…
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What is the difference between the “thing in itself” and noumena?
“Things in themselves” and noumena are similar in Kantian metaphysics (Critique of Pure Reason, mostly) and interchangeable much of the time. The phenomena/noumena divide is integral to Kantian metaphysics, so it is natural to wonder where “things…
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